Events

Tallinn Art Hall welcomes you to a cheerful last exhibition before the extensive renovation works of its main building. “We’ll Be Right Back, You Just Keep Playing!” brings together different generations of artists based in Estonia. You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 18 March at 6 pm!

Jass Kaselaan's personal exhibition Monster Follows the Sheep Carrier will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Thursday, March 10, 2022. Exhibition will stay open until April 4, 2022.  Jass Kaselaan: „Monster following the sheep carrier (the good shepherd) is an inevitability, a logical chain of cause and effect, natural and inescapable course of events. Current exhibition focuses on modeling of the resonation of pray-predator system and on creating a simulation. An important aspect here is both qualitative and quantitative analysis, evaluation and mapping of animated worlds as well as optimizing/organizing of these maps. Filtrating, designing and transforming of imported data. An attempt to make   the unfathomable perceivable at least to some extent – to mark the indication about the deceptive state of free will. Two mosaic murals and five sculptural objects are exhibited in Hobusepea gallery.“

Jaan Elken's personal exhibition “ON_OFF” will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Exhibition will be open until April 2, 2022.

Opening on Saturday, 5th of March at 5 p.m.  The first solo exhibition of Laura Kuusk in Võru consists of two of her recent works, with which the artist wishes to create a dialogue with people who are interested in food, clothes, technology and who ask questions about the origin and ways of being of the matter in our environment. She also puts the emphasis on the ways of composing by the nature and by the human.  The installation “How to Move as a Slime Mold” (2021) is built up as a sound cocoon created by a female voice and an ambient sound, walking the visitor through his/her/ their bodies to suggest an experience of becoming an other-than-human organism. The participants are asked to find a comfortable way of interacting with the installation and build their personal experience through spatial and auditory elements. The installation emphasises the idea of reuse and growing through change, not accumulation.

Joint exhibition of Aleksejs Naumovs, Vilen Künnapu and Liisa Kruusmägi “JUNGLES” at SOLARIS Gallery. The exhibition “JUNGLES” based on the work of Latvian painter Aleksejs Naumovs will be opened at SOLARIS Gallery on Friday, February 25 at 19:00. Estonian painters Vilen Künnapu and Liisa Kruusmägi will add thematic coloring to the exhibition.

From Saturday, 26 February the exhibition of this year’s Tartu Art Auction will once again be open in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House. The auction is organised by the Tartu Artists’ Union in co-operation with the gallery Art & Tonic. Auction itself takes place on 25 March! 50 works were selected for the exhibition. Participating artists are: Talia, Lilian Sokolova, Urmas Viik, Nele Tiidelepp, Edgar Tedresaar, Jürgen Vainola, Andres Sütevaka, Toomas Kuusing, Martti Ruus, Marina Nerro, Krista Sokolova, Rein Tääker, Peeter Krosmann, Eva Elise Oll, Lilli-Krõõt Repnau, Maris Tammer, Enn Põldroos, Stina Leek, Teele Ülesoo, Timo Kähara, Tea Lemberpuu, Albert Gulk, Kaur Mäepalu, Külli Trummal, Maik Kalberg, Maris Tuuling, Siiri Jüris, Liisi Örd, Edgar Juhkov, Heikki Leis, Paul Kormašov, Epp Margna, Anu Muiste, Anni Mets, Heleliis Hõim, Meiu Münt, Eike Eplik, Kadri Toom, Margus Kontus, Al Paldrok, Stanislav Antipov, Regina-Mareta Soonsein, Maryliis Teinfeldt-Grins, Enn Tegova, Kiwa, Imat Suumann, Alar Tuul, Maria Sidljarevitš, Mirjam Hinn, Helle Vahersalu.

From Saturday, 26 February the sound art group exhibition “Misconnections” is open in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition curator is Martin Rästa. What happens when the means of mass communication replace the dialogue with endless parallel monologues? Will the message hold up or collapse in a deafening roar? What happens when the info doesn’t transfer from one to another but is reflected back into a void of the same shape? Or if the inability to actively listen becomes so dominant that each non-conforming thought fades before it is formed? What if everybody talks at the same time but nobody listens? The exhibition shapes the messages of the participating artists into a generative group artwork, exploring the meaning and possibility of the dialogue process in the post-internet era. Participating artists: John Grzinich, Roomet Jakapi, Raul Keller, Kiwa, Patrick Tubin McGinley, Uku Pira, Ann Reimann, Martin Rästa, Sten Saarits, Karl Saks, Renzo van Steenbergen, Taavi Suisalu and Hello Upan. Curator and graphic design: Martin Rästa The exhibition is open until 27 March.

The opening event is on Thursday 24.2. at 18:00. Welcome! At their new exhibition in Uusikaupunki, Finland, artists Riin Pallon and Kairi Orgusaar are showing their paintings created during previous 2 years.  Both hail from Rapla, a small Estonian town where they’ve been active running a local contemporary art centre, organising events and teaching courses, for over 10 years. They have previously shown their works in Finland at Mynämäki and Nousiainen in 2012; thanks to ongoing contacts with Finnish artists, they are back with their newest creations.

From Thursday, 17 February, the exhibition by Taavi Talve, “I Was in Timbuktu” will be open at Tallinn City Gallery. The exhibition discusses images projected into an unexplored corner of the world and colonial conquest. One such story is told by Werner Legère in his novel I Was in Timbuktu, which appeared in Estonian in 1959 as part of the Adventure Stories from Land and Sea (Seiklusjutte maalt ja merelt) book series and sparked the imagination of many young readers, who later began to question the actual existence of Timbuktu. The curator of the exhibition is Indrek Grigor. You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition at Tallinn City Gallery on Wednesday, 16 February at 6 pm.

The co-exhibition “A Visitor” by Eero Alev, Marleen Suvi and Brenda Purtsak will be open in Hobusepea gallery from Thursday, February 10, 2022. Exhibition will stay open until March 7, 2022.  I don't know what it feels to be dead, said a six-year-old girl to her father once. Her father listened, pondered, and remembered – neither did he know, but he yearned to. First, these twenty something thousand days given to us seem to last forever, but the more one moves along the axis, the days grow considerably shorter. We have a beginning and we have an end. Our visiting hours are limited and at some point, even without knowing it, we will leave all this behind. What did we find? Were we searching for something at all? How much did we ask and what did we give? We arrive from somewhere we remember nothing about, and we are going somewhere we know nothing about.